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Ponies on Quail Island prior to departure for Antarctica

Robert Falcon Scott and John Grigg inspecting ponies on Quail Island, 1910; Captain Lawrence Oates is wearing the tweed hat.

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horses
antarctica
quail island
robert scott
Credit

Reference: Unknown photographer, Summers collection, 1986.343.2, Canterbury Museum
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